I know it is hard to imagine a world that doesn't revolve around voting, democracy, and elections but I think it would be a much better world. These clowns are not our friends. The whole lot is so bad that it makes it hard to see the rare good one.

People get hung up on the two teams and forget to zoom out and see the systematic issues. Few are looking at how we get past the issues. Its like the saying. When you have a hammer (democracy) every problem looks like a nail (elections).

We have a very divisive and divided nation. We aren't really one nation any longer. What we have is a few different cultures battling for the control of everyone else. Its so clear to me that this is the root issue. Don't get me wrong. I'm no fan of democracy but in a nation with a more unified culture it would work far better.

To me, the only way you have a nation this large that works is to decentralize and decrease the power of the state massively. But we know how that ends. A big centralized state like we have today. The US was created basically with the idea of decentralization. That fell apart pretty quickly. Civil war was the big nail in the coffin.

In California we are bombarded with ads for prop 50... to "save democracy". Its so stupid its not even funny anymore.